I Am Not A Gangster

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Robert Cummines OBE, FRSA (born 23 November 1951) is an English former gang leader, protection racketeer, armed robber, and criminal enforcer who was chief executive of Unlock, The National Association of Reformed Offenders from April 1999 until March 2012. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You feel all emotions when reading this book and it is a very powerful honest account of a difficult life but of someone who came through. Bobby was sent to prison for the first time in 1967, aged 16, and over the next decade he established himself as a ruthless hardened criminal through a succession of lucrative protection rackets and robberies.

He went to prison and within the first few months he had taken a governor hostage for being "unreasonable". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The latter stages of the book focuses on his reform and turning his life around, which really is quite something.

Only this time his efforts saw him go from custody of Her Majesty's Prison Service to coming face-to-face with the Queen herself. Eventually Bobby was sentenced to 12 years in Britain's most notorious prisons, along with the Krays, Charlie Richardson and the Yorkshire Ripper. I Am Not A Gangster is an explosive account of life in the criminal underworld by one of Britain's most dangerous men, but above all it's a remarkable tale of redemption with the biggest turnaround in gangland history. Cummines has criticised the system of high-security prisons, which places many brilliant criminal minds in one location and thus enables them to teach each other tricks and establish connections.

He was told that if he pleaded guilty to the possession charge, he would only have to pay a 10 shilling fine, whereas if he chose to proceed to a trial, he would likely be convicted and sentenced to time in a borstal. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. I Am Not A Gangster is a blisteringly honest account of the inner workings of the most infamous crime syndicates known and life inside Britain's most notorious jails, but above all it's a remarkable tale of redemption with the biggest turnaround in gangland history.This led authorities to designate him as a class "A" prisoner, causing him to be frequently moved from one prison to another.